Woodward: ‘The truth resides with people,’ not the Internet

The Washington Post | Poynter
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein don’t think the Internet is a great place for reporting: “The truth of what goes on is not on the Internet,” Woodward said at the American Society of News Editors’ conference Monday. The Web “can supplement. It can help advance. But the truth resides with people. Human sources.”

“We had a readership that was much more open to real fact than today,” Bernstein said. The Watergate story done today, he said, probably wouldn’t “withstand this cultural reception. It might get ground up in the process.”
Woodward hit some similar notes in a visit to Poynter last year: “The really important information on Watergate or any of these stories was not on the Internet,” he said, which, to be fair, wasn’t much of a concern in the early ’70s. “Mark Felt, who was Deep Throat, didn’t have a Facebook account. He wouldn’t have had one.”

He wasn’t entirely down on social media: ““All the blogs and Twitter and Facebook are all part of a conversation and a discussion, and by and large I think it’s good and it’s healthy. People will sort out the information they’re going to use and need. But I’m not sure that being connected every minute is a good thing.”

Bob Woodward is a fraud. Did you know that Woodward WORKED IN THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION as late as 1970? Yep, sure did. In fact, he worked at the highest levels, briefing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on intelligence (as well as Alexander Haig, Nixon’s eventual chief of staff).

Had you known this, would you have believed ANYTHING he had to say about Watergate? Of course not.

For the truth about Woodward and Watergate, read this new book by Tegan Mathis:

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Bob Woodward is a fraud. Did you know that Woodward WORKED IN THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION as late as 1970? Yep, sure did. In fact, he worked at the highest levels, briefing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on intelligence (as well as Alexander Haig, Nixon’s eventual chief of staff).

Had you known this, would you have believed ANYTHING he had to say about Watergate? Of course not.

For the truth about Woodward and Watergate, read this new book by Tegan Mathis: